The United Nations Development Program’s Quick Wins

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) works

with different nations and organizations to withstand
crises, empower lives and improve the quality of life for
all. One of the UNDP’s intervention programs to achieve
the eight millennium development goals is called Quick
Wins.
Quick Wins are actions that can be immediately used
within the community or locale to produce effective
results. If applied continuously, Quick Wins could change
people’s views, and beliefs and trigger actions which
could lead to helping millions of lives and countries find
their right path towards the goals. Below are some
examples of UNDP’s Quick Wins:
• No school fees and free access to educational
materials and facilities in schools to ensure that all
children attend classes. This eliminates poor families’
concept that education is only for those who can
afford it. Finances can include donor assistance from
partnerships with private groups.
• Children are provided with free school meals and
take-home rations using locally produced food.
• Regular annual deworming for all school children
especially in impoverished areas to improve health
and education.
• Provision for poor farmers of affordable supplies
of soil nitrogen and other soil nutrients.
• Design community nutrition programs for
pregnant, nursing mothers and children below five
years of age. These includes breastfeeding, feeding
programs and micronutrient supplements like
vitamin A and zinc.
• Offer basic skills training of community members
in health, farming, technicalvocational, and
infrastructure.
• Free basic health services sponsored by private
organizations.
• Expanded access to sexual and reproductive
health information and services. These includes
family planning information campaign and services.
• Distribution of free, effective, and efficient
insecticide-treated bed nets to families especially in
malaria and dengue-endemic areas
• Active national and local campaigns to reduce
violence against women and children.
• Reform and enforce legislation protecting and
empowering women’s and children’s rights.
• Empowering women to play an important role
in formulating and monitoring poverty reduction
strategies, programs, and policies.
• Allowing government-owned hospitals, health
centers, schools and other social service
institutions free access to electricity, water,
sanitation, and internet using sustainable and
renewable energies like solar panels, wind, and
geothermal generators.
• Plant endemic trees at the community level to
provide shade, produce, watershed protection,
windbreak, and timber.
LEARNING TASK 1:
“SPEEDY SOLUTIONS”
Directions: Imagine yourself as a member
of a local organization that wants to
sponsor one of the UNDP type projects
given above to help achieve the millennium
development goals. Follow the procedures
below in doing the task.
1. Pick a project under Quick Wins
Program. Choose a creative title for the
project.
2. Determine which Millennium
Development Goal(s) the project
targets.
3. Come up with your slogan that
captures the energy and importance. of
the chosen project.
4. Write your answer on the table
provided.
LEARNING TASK 4: “Quick Wins Program”
Directions: Read and analyze each statement below. Put a (check) on the space
provided if it is a part of United Nation Development Programs and X if it is NOT.
_____1. No school fees and free access to educational materials and facilities in
schools to ensure that all children attend classes. This eliminates poor families’
concept that education is only for those who can afford it. Finances can include
donor assistance from partnerships with private groups.
_____2. Expanded access to sexual and reproductive health information and
services. These includes family planning information campaign and services.
_____3. Distribution of free, effective and efficient insecticide-treated bed nets to
families especially in malaria and dengue-endemic areas.
_____4. Reform and enforce legislation protecting and empowering women’s and
children’s rights.
______5. Allowing government-owned hospitals, health centers, schools and other
social service institutions free access to electricity, water, sanitation and internet
using sustainable and renewable energies like solar panels, wind and geothermal
generators